Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes
If you walk into a room that's bro'd up, and you're in power, bring more women into the room.
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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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My parents believed in the power of education.
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I feel like artists and their lyrics are something that people can relate to when it comes to love and break-ups. I really want people to know how I felt when I went through a break up, when I really felt alive, and everything in between.
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People think I just walk up to a sheer cliff and climb it with no knowledge of anything, when in reality, there's tons and tons of information out there, and I'm already well tapped into it.
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The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.
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If you walk into a room that's bro'd up, and you're in power, bring more women into the room.
